an unusual 1839 portrait of young Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) aged 19. Engels was a German philosopher and communist activist as well as being an historian, social scientist, sociologist, journalist, and businessman His father owned a number of large textile factories in Salford, England, and Barmen, Prussia (now Wuppertal, Germany).Engels developed what is now known as the Marxist theory in cooperation with Karl Marx, co-authored The Communist Manifesto and actually gave Marx financial support. As a writer he wrote under the name He wrote under the pseudonym "Friedrich Oswald" .

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